A Pretty Amazon Wishlist with Python
Thursday, November 11th, 2004...6:11 am
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Until yesterday I’d never written a python script. Now, with the help of the pyAmazon library I’ve written a really short little script to retrieve my wishlist from Amazon.co.uk and save it as a HTML file. The difference is that I can include pictures of the items which amazon leaves out of their wishlist page. Now I can print it out and keep it with me for those occasions I’m in a book shop, cash-in-hand and lacking inspiration (sadly, this doesn’t happen often).
As A Bite of Python says:
Python is probably one of the first programming languages out there which is both simple and powerful, which is good for both beginners as well as experts, and importantly, fun to program with
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November 11th, 2004 at 8:12 am
ALternatively you could put it on the web as inspiration for people who want to buy you presents, instead of just getting alcohol again!
I gave up on the idea of the Amazon.co.uk wishlist after I managed to add 25 books in less than 5 mins. I realised I wan’t willing to exercise the self control needed to keep to a moderate list of books. Just like in real-life
November 11th, 2004 at 8:53 am
25 books on the wishlist is better than 25 books in the basket!
I’ve been amazon-free since March time but I’m itching to buy a few books now. However, my recent splurges at the library and with inter-library loans means that I’ve got 12 books to read, summarise, understand, photocopy and OCR – all in the next 2-3 weeks. I’ve just spent a quiet 2 hours in the library trying to knock one off the list.
I’ll probably publish the list and script some… later.
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